I am a retired professor of Sociology; taught in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Denver. I currently in Denver, Colorado where Mary Lee and I raised two children who also live in Denver. I have been active in the Audubon Society of Greater Denver, where I completed the Master Birder program in 2010. I was also an Audubon Naturalist Volunteer helping with school programs and activities at the  Denver Audubon Kingery Nature Center. I am a member First Plymouth Congregational Church, UCC and am active in the Men’s Fellowship and the project to Reduce Gun Violence.

Hobbies and retirement activities include amateur web site builder, photography, fly fishing, fly tying and genealogy.

I have traveled with Elderhostel/Road Scholar in United States, Europe, Central and South America. I served in Germany (1960 to 1961) and spent a summer in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan (summer 1967 as a research fellow). My wife and I visited China in 1999 with a group of fellow travelers from First Plymouth.

I attended the University of Oregon where I first earned a B.A. in Biology, 1958. After service in the military and working in the neurology lab at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center in Portland, I returned to the main campus in Eugene where earned an M.A. in Sociology, 1967; and was awarded a PhD in Sociology, 1971.

I have a varied work history. As a teen in the McKenzie Valley I did farm labor, and cannery work. While at the University I was  a janitor, and worked as an orderly at McKenzie-Willamette Community Hospital. Upon completion of military service I worked for a year as a laboratory technician in the Neurology Department at the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland. My career as a college professor began in 1968 in the Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Denver. After 37 years I retired as an Associate Professor of Sociology in 2005

Military service: enlisted June 1958, completed basic training at Fort Ord, California. From Fort Ord was sent to Brooks Army Medical Center to wait for an opening in the radiology school. While waiting a request came for a research lab technician at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. I served there in the Hematology lab from1958 to 1960. In March 1960 was transferred to Second General Hospital, Landstuhl, Germany where I served as a lab technician doing blood chemistries from1960 to 1961.

I was born Iowa and the family moved to Oregon in 1940. The next twenty years the family lived at Dexter, Springfield, Welches, Portland, Milwaukie, Walterville, and finally, Springfield. After military, Mary Lee and I married and lived in Portland, Eugene and Denver.

Personal genealogy web sites: Anderson-Holmes Genealogy, a web site hosted at Hostgator, and Anderson-Holmes-Horney-Haake Family Site at RootsWeb.

Finally, I helped develop and maintain the web site for the Audubon Society of Greater Denver (see link above) until 2018 or so. After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, a group of us became concerned with such shootings and eventually created Colorado Faith Communities United Against Gun Violence and I created and maintained the web site for the organization